Huge result for these “cowards and bottlers”.
Cant wait until Gerrard “fucks off back to Liverpool”
I tell you what, I know who the cowards and bottlers were today and it wasn’t our players.
Rangers are delighted to confirm the return of Ryan Kent to the club on a permanent basis from Liverpool Football Club for an undisclosed fee, subject to international clearance.
The winger has signed a four-year-deal with the Gers after spending the 2018/19 season on loan at Ibrox.
Ryan established himself as a fan favourite in his first spell with the Light Blues, starting 40 games, making a total of 43 appearances and scoring six goals. He won the Scottish PFA Young Player of the Year Award, as well as being nominated for the main award. He walked away from the Rangers Player of the Year Awards with the same young player accolade.
Rangers was the 22-year-old’s fifth loan move of his young career, following spells with Coventry City, Barnsley, SC Freiburg and Bristol City but he made it clear he had found a home with the Light Blues. He commented in May, “I feel like I have re-found my love for the game here.”
Born in Oldham Ryan joined Liverpool aged seven-years-old and progressed through the ranks, earning him involvement with the first team since 2015. He toured with Jürgen Klopp’s squad this summer following his return from Rangers, playing in their pre-season friendlies across America.
The 22-year-old will join up with Steven Gerrard’s squad when the team return from the international break.
The way I’m looking at it, we lost it due to Gerrard making an arse of it rather than being outclassed.
It’s frustrating but it will also give them a false sense of security. They’re no great shakes, we’re 4 games in and I still expect us to win the league.
It’s a sore one but we couldn’t have played any worse yesterday.
There was a considerable blip in the anti-Alfredo Morelos narrative currently being driven by sections of the media in Scotland. Sadly, the predictable one-way traffic was not brought to a sudden halt by an ex Rangers player speaking out, no, Barry Ferguson and Lee McCulloch were too busy acquiescing and adding to that negative narrative with criticism of their own.
In a week which showed Kirk Broadfoot raking his studs down Alfredo’s Achilles heel, you might have thought the onslaught would abate for a few days – but alas, this is Scotland we are talking about.
Instead it was left to Chris Jack of the Evening Times to write an article,
not only defending Alfredo, but in addition, humanising this young man so many have sought to dehumanise with comments such as “buffalo brains “and relating his upbringing to something from the Narcos Netflix series.
Jack highlights a young man brought up in extreme poverty, who has never forgotten his roots, who remains respectful to his parents and the country of his birth, and for whom the lessons learned from such a harsh upbringing remain a driver towards success. Perhaps in any other country such a young man would be seen as a positive role model rather than the devil incarnate.
But the comments of Ferguson and McCulloch really rankle – their adding to the anti-Morelos narrative serve to give it a sense of normality, when in fact it is anything but normal – it is in fact, abnormal. And no amount of ex Rangers players selling themselves to the highest bidder should allow us to lose sight of this fact. It has been a concerted campaign to demonise our prize asset and the likes of Ferguson and McCulloch, with their strong Rangers antecedents, adding their weight to the millstone being placed round Alfredo’s neck serve to give this concerted campaign a sense of credibility.
Ferguson and McCulloch are by no means the worst, Kris Boyd demonstrating his ability to adapt to the anti-Rangers agenda with considerable aplomb following a series of articles and comments criticising his former club. His lack of consistency in his arguments demonstrate Boyd realises which side of the bread requires to be buttered to ensure a favourable return.
You make your bed and you lie in it. I hope we as fans and in particular RSC’s will remember those who have served the dirty pieces of silver some sections of the media will pay in order to provide a sense of balance and credibility to that which is unbalanced and lacks credibility. Hopefully the club itself will add some solidarity when the same individuals go begging for tickets.
“To be a Ranger is to sense the sacred trust of upholding all that such a name means in this shrine of football. They must be true in their conception of what the Ibrox tradition seeks from them. No true Ranger has ever failed in the tradition set him.